Lois Capps: “So since 2009, there has been widespread agreement that this cost-benefit standard does need to be abandoned.”

This would undermine the fundamental principles of the program and I cannot express enough how damaging that would be to patients and my constituents.

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1818, the Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act. As the ranking member of our committee just said, our military medics receive some of the best technical…

As you well know, climate change is real. The effects are real, and the time to act is now.

This time last year, I attended the State of the Union Address with my guest, Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher was gunned down during a tragic Isla Vista shooting that rocked our local community on the Central Coast of California…